India Trains The World’s Robots, But At What Cost?

In the 1990s, American hospitals began routing physician dictations to transcriptionists in Bangalore and Chennai. It was unglamorous work, but India was good at it. Thirty years on, cameras are being slapped on the foreheads of India’s blue-collar workforce, and as they sew a seam, pack an iPhone or assemble a component, the gadget records — every wrist angle, hand movement and intricacy with utmost precision and detail.